Gravitational waves from supernova matter

We have performed a set of 11 three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) core-collapse supernova simulations in order to investigate the dependences of the gravitational wave signal on the progenitor's initial conditions. We study the effects of the initial central angular velocity and diffe...

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Published in:Classical and quantum gravity 2010-06, Vol.27 (11), p.114101-114101
Main Authors: Scheidegger, S, Whitehouse, S C, Käppeli, R, Liebendörfer, M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Exact sciences and technology
General relativity and gravitation
Gravitational waves
Initial conditions
Neutrinos
Physics
Quantum gravity
Stars
Supernovas
Transport
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Summary:We have performed a set of 11 three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) core-collapse supernova simulations in order to investigate the dependences of the gravitational wave signal on the progenitor's initial conditions. We study the effects of the initial central angular velocity and different variants of neutrino transport. Our models are started up from a 15M progenitor and incorporate an effective general relativistic gravitational potential and a finite temperature nuclear equation of state. Furthermore, the electron flavour neutrino transport is tracked by efficient algorithms for the radiative transfer of massless fermions. We find that non- and slowly rotating models show gravitational wave emission due to prompt- and lepton driven convection that reveals details about the hydrodynamical state of the fluid inside the protoneutron stars. Furthermore we show that protoneutron stars can become dynamically unstable to rotational instabilities at T/
ISSN:0264-9381
1361-6382
DOI:10.1088/0264-9381/27/11/114101